Historical
epub |eng | | Author:Frank Ching

CHAPTER NINETEEN Qin Huitian: Minister of Punishments HUITIAN BECAME THE most distinguished member of our family in the Qing dynasty, just as Qin Jin had been the most outstanding in ...
( Category: Asian American Studies May 28,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Colin Woodard

As he looked over his new prize, Blackbeard knew he had finally found a proper flagship. La Concorde was as big, fast, and powerful as Bellamy’s now infamous Whydah, maybe ...
( Category: Crime & Criminals May 28,2019 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-09 | Author:Angus Konstam

The role of quartermaster was intended as a check on the authority of the captain, but it was also key to the running of the ship because he supervised the ...
( Category: Maritime History & Piracy May 28,2019 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-05 | Author:Robert Asprey [ROBERT B. ASPREY]

Notes 1 Bourrienne, I, 143. 2 Corr. IV. Nrs. 2858, Cairo, 27 July 1798; 2868, 2870, Cairo, 28 July 1798. 3 Corr. XXIX, 453. Eugène Beauharnais was sent to inform ...
( Category: Presidents & Heads of State May 28,2019 )
epub |eng | 2015-07-15 | Author:Griffin, Miriam;

(Luc 9.980–6, trans. S. H. Braund) Where Achilles had his Homer, and Alexander but the feeble Choerilus, Caesar will now have Lucan. The hero hastens on to Alexandria, pausing only ...
( Category: Rome May 28,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Plutarch

8 BRUTUS [85–42 B.C.] 1. Marcus Brutus was a descendant of that Junius Brutus in whose honour the ancient Romans erected a statue of bronze and placed it in the ...
( Category: Rome May 28,2019 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-20 | Author:Paul Stephenson [STEPHENSON, PAUL]

A common vision? It is clear from the passage quoted in full above (p. 183) that Eusebius (VC I.28), and following him the fifth-century Christian historians Sozomen (I.3) and Socrates ...
( Category: Rome May 28,2019 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-24 | Author:Lindsay Powell

The discovery of the use of black magic would reinforce the impression of the couple’s wicked intentions. The little room of horrors may even have been stage-managed by friends of ...
( Category: Rome May 28,2019 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-29 | Author:John D Grainger

Chapter 9 Kings and War The ancient sources imply that the main business of kings was warfare, though this is more the result of their omission of other activities than ...
( Category: Rome May 27,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-10-08 | Author:F. S. Naiden

Anonymous color drawing of the western bank of the Beas River, 1848. Illustrated London News. in early fall, the army marched back to the place on the Jhelum where they ...
( Category: Rome May 27,2019 )
mobi |eng | 2004-01-02 | Author:Montefiore, Simon Sebag [Montefiore, Simon Sebag]

PART EIGHT War: The Triumphant Genius 1942–1945 39 The Supremo of Stalingrad During Stalingrad, the Supremo usually fell asleep wearing all his clothes on the metal camp bed that stood ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents May 27,2019 )
mobi |eng | 2011-09-29 | Author:Ching, Frank [Ching, Frank]

CHAPTER NINETEEN Qin Huitian: Minister of Punishments HUITIAN BECAME THE most distinguished member of our family in the Qing dynasty, just as Qin Jin had been the most outstanding in ...
( Category: Asian American Studies May 27,2019 )
mobi |eng | 2009-04-19 | Author:Matyszak, Philip [Matyszak, Philip]

Peace talks Whilst Sulla delicately fenced with the envoys of Archelaus on talks about talks, Fimbria took his army into Asia Minor and, by damaging Mithridates there, improved Sulla’s negotiating ...
( Category: Rome May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-10-05 | Author:Taylor, Larissa Juliet [Taylor, Larissa Juliet]

Map 10 Joan's route to captivity and execution, March–May 1430. The bishop of Beauvais, Pierre Cauchon, an important diplomat and former rector of the University of Paris, wrote offering money. ...
( Category: Women in History May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2018-11-05 | Author:Guy, John & Fletcher && Company [Guy, John]

A more stinging or vehement rebuke of one reigning queen by another could scarcely have been imagined. Mary reeled from this latest blow, offended not least by the remark that ...
( Category: Women in History May 27,2019 )